robbie williams tour date 2023

Robbie Williams toured from 9 Oct 2022 to 24 Jun 2023; he performed 52 times and played around 20 songs per show.

General setlist.

01 Hey Wow Yeah Yeah

02 Let Me Entertain You

03 Land of 1000 Dances

06 Come Undone

07 Everything Changes

08 Don't Look Back in Anger

09 The Flood

10 Love My Life

11 Eternity - XXV

13 Old Before I Die

18 No Regrets - XXV

19 She's the One - XXV

20 Angels - XXV

Ben Edwards

Denosh Bennett

Gary Nuttall

Guy Chambers

Karl Brazil

Mike Kearsey

Nayanna Holley

Sarah Jane Skeete

Tom Longworth

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Robbie Williams taking ‘XXV’ tour across Europe in 2023

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Robbie Williams will take his ‘XXV’ 25th anniversary tour across Europe in early 2023. 

The former Take That star is celebrating his latest milestone with a string of UK and Ireland dates across the autumn, and will take the concert across the continent starting January 20 in Bologna, Italy.

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“Europe 2023 – let’s do this,” he said in an announcement of the 22-date run, which wraps June 24 in Oslo, Norway.

Europe 2023 – let's do this x Presale – Wednesday 28th September 09:00 BST / 10:00 CEST General on-sale – Friday 30th September 09:00 BST / 10:00 CEST pic.twitter.com/PxVqpLw89n — Robbie Williams (@robbiewilliams) September 26, 2022

Tickets for the dates go on general sale September 30 at 9 am BST. 

The full list of European tour dates is as follows: 

JANUARY 2023

20 – Unipol Arena, Bologna 23 – Hallenstadion, Zurich 26 – Sportpaleis, Antwerp 28 – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam 29 – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam

FEBRUARY 2023

1 – Barclays Arena, Hamburg 5 – Lanxess Arena, Cologne 15 – Festhalle, Frankfurt 20 – Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin 26 – Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning 27 – Royal Arena, Copenhagen

1 – Avicii Arena, Stockholm 5 – Nokia Arena, Tampere 9 – Arena Riga 10 – Zalgirio Arena, Kaunas 12 – Tauron Arena, Krakow 14 – Budapest Arena 17 – Stadthalle, Vienna 20 – Accor Arena, Paris 24 – Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona 27 – Altice Arena, Lisbon

24 – Telenor Arena, Oslo

The shows come ahead of a run of shows Down Under in autumn 2023, which will see Robbie perform a series headline dates across Australia alongside a one-off New Zealand appearance at Hawke’s Bay’s stunning Mission Estate.

“Australasia is one of my favourite places in the world to tour; I feel so at home there and hugely appreciate the warm, loving welcome I always receive,” he says.

Australasia 2023 – I can’t wait to see you all x Pre-sale from Tuesday 27th September, general on sale Friday 30th September pic.twitter.com/xuKx1x71O3 — Robbie Williams (@robbiewilliams) September 21, 2022

“I can’t wait to do these shows in 2023 and spend some time with my fans.”

The full list of Australasian tour dates is as follows:

NOVEMBER 2023

11 – ​Mission Estate, Hawke’s Bay, NZ 16 ​- Allianz Stadium, Sydney, NSW 18 ​- Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton, QLD – A Day On The Green 23 ​- AAMI Park, Melbourne, VIC 25 ​- Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong, VIC – A Day On The Green

1 ​- Nikola Estate, Swan Valley, WA – A Day On The Green

Robbie celebrated his latest milestone with the release of ‘XXV’, featuring re-recorded orchestral versions of his biggest hits and personal favourite tracks.

The track debuted at No. 1, giving the hitmaker a record 14th solo chart-topper , which saw Robbie surpasses Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most UK No. 1 albums. 

“Thank you to everyone who’s supported the album: everyone who’s bought it, streamed it, downloaded it and reviewed it,” he said in celebration of the milestone.

“I’m so pleased that it’s gone to No. 1, and whilst it feels strange to be receiving an award during these sombre times, I wanted to thank you all for your support and dedicate this to the fans, who I never take for granted. I really appreciate it, thank you so much.”

In a  review of the album , Retro Pop said ‘XXV’ “marries Robbie’s classic sound with nuances found in his swing repertoire, celebrating the past 25 years and opening the door to the next era in his career.”

‘XXV’ is  available now .

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Robbie Williams has announced details of the European leg of his “XXV” tour, which has been organized to celebrates 25 years of his solo career.

Williams already confirmed dates for the UK and Ireland run of dates, which will kick off in October. Williams will head inland in January, starting the tour in Bologna, Italy, on January 20. He will then travel to Switzerland, Belgium, and more, before wrapping things up in March. He hits the road one more time in June for a date in Oslo.

Last year, it was announced that the forthcoming Robbie Williams biopic Better Man , will begin filming in Melbourne, Australia in early 2022 and will be directed by Michael Gracey ( The Greatest Showman ).

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Williams is one of the U.K.’s most prominent entertainers and one of the best-selling artists of all time. He first found fame with the group Take That , from 1989 to 1995, and then began a wildly successful solo career. The film “will offer an introspective look into the experiences that shaped Williams, both on and off stage.”

Williams is expected to appear as himself, with some of his songs “re-interpreted and recontextualized in the film.” Variety reported that Better Man will be distributed in Australia and New Zealand by leading film distributor, Roadshow Films. International sales are handled by U.K.-based Rocket Science, which previously handled Schumacher and The Trial of The Chicago 7 .

Listen to the best of Robbie Williams on Apple Music and Spotify .

Robbie Williams Tour Dates: January 2023 20 – Bologna, Italy, Unipol Arena 23 – Zurich, Switzerland, Hallenstadion 26 – Antwerp, Belgium, Sportpaleis 28 – Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ziggo Dome 29 – Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ziggo Dome

February 2023 1 – Hamburg, Germany, Barclays Arena 5 – Cologne, Germany, Lanxess Arena 15 – Frankfurt, Germany, Festhalle 20 – Berlin, Mercedes Benz Arena 26 – Herning, Denmark, Jyske Bank Boxen 27 – Copenhagen, Denmark, Royal Arena

March 2023 1 – Stockholm, Sweden, Avicii Arena 5 – Tampere, Finland, Nokia Arena 9 – Riga, Latvia, Arena 10 – Kaunas, Lithuania, Zalgirio Arena 12 – Krakow, Poland, Tauron Arena 14 – Budapest, Hungary, Arena 17 – Vienna, Austria, Stadthalle 20 – Paris, France, AccorHotels Arena 27 – Lisbon, Portugal, Altice Arena

June 2023 24 – Oslo, Norway, Telenor Arena

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Robbie Williams 2023 Australian Tour Setlists

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Robbie Williams is celebrating 25 years of hits at a bunch of Australian headline shows this month. The British pop star is playing stadium venues in Sydney and Melbourne and wineries in Mount Cotton, Geelong and Swan Valley.

Williams will be supported throughout the tour by Supergrass’ Gaz Coombes and his own electronic project, Lufthaus. The three acts are booked in for the final night of the VAILO Adelaide 500 after-race concert series .

The tour comes 25 years after the release of Williams’ debut solo record, Life Thru A Lens . He’s released a total of 12 studio albums a solo artist, the latest being 2019’s The Christmas Present . The retrospective compilation, XXV , came out in September 2022. You can find all of Williams’ Australian tour setlists below.

Robbie Williams – ‘Let Me Entertain You’

​Adelaide 500 @ Adelaide Parklands

• Sunday, 26th November
• Hey Wow Yeah Yeah
• Let Me Entertain You
• Land of 1000 Dances (Chris Kenner cover)
• Come Undone
• Could It Be Magic (Barry Manilow cover)
• Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis cover)
• Back for Good (Take That song)
• Love My Life
• You’re The Voice (John Farnham cover)
• She’s The One (World Party cover)
• Medley: Let Me Entertain You, Strong, Back For Good, Feel, Angels

AAMI Park, Melbourne

• Thursday, 23rd November
• Let Me Entertain You 
• Land of 1000 Dances (Chris Kenner cover) 
• Come Undone 
• Could It Be Magic (Barry Manilow cover) 
• Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis cover) 
• Back For Good (Take That song) 
• Love My Life 
• You’re The Voice (John Farnham cover) 
• Wednesday, 22nd November
• Back For Good (Take That song)
• Medley: Let Me Entertain You, Strong, Come Undone, Better Man, Feel, Angels

Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton​

• Sunday, 19th November

Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton

• Saturday, 18th November

Allianz Stadium, Sydney

• Thursday, 16th November

Robbie Williams – 25 Years Of Hits Australian Tour 2023

• Thursday, 16th November, 2023 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney, NSW
• Saturday, 18th November, 2023 – ​Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton, QLD (A Day On The Green)
• Sunday, 19th November, 2023 – ​Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton, QLD (A Day On The Green)
• Wednesday, 22nd November, 2023 – ​AAMI Park, Melbourne, VIC
• Thursday, 23rd November, 2023 – ​AAMI Park, Melbourne, VIC
• Saturday, 25th November, 2023 – Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong, VIC (A Day On The Green)
• Sunday, 26th November, 2023 – Adelaide Parklands Street Circuit, Adelaide (Adelaide 500)
• Thursday, 30th November 2023 – Nikola Estate, Swan Valley, WA (A Day On The Green)
• Friday, 1st December, 2023 – Nikola Estate, Swan Valley, WA (A Day On The Green)

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Robbie williams announces australian & new zealand 2023 tour dates.

Posted by Buddy Iahn | Sep 20, 2022

Six dates set for Nov 2023

Chugg Entertainment and Frontier Touring have announced that global pop phenomenon Robbie Williams will return to Australia in November 2023 to play headline dates across the country alongside a one-off New Zealand appearance at Hawke’s Bay’s stunning Mission Estate.

Landing at Sydney’s newly renovated Allianz Stadium on Thursday, November 16th, Williams will entertain East Coast audiences – playing Mount Cotton’s Sirromet Wines, Melbourne’s AAMI Park and Geelong’s Mt Duneed Estate – before traversing the country to make his Swan Valley debut at Nikola Estate on Friday, December 1st.

“Australasia is one of my favourite places in the world to tour; I feel so at home there and hugely appreciate the warm, loving welcome I always receive. I can’t wait to do these shows in 2023 and spend some time with my fans,” says Williams.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, September 30th at noon local time via Ticketmaster . Pre-sales start on Tuesday, September 27th at noon local time.

Williams is without doubt one of the finest male pop stars of his generation, having sold over 85 million albums, 14 UK No. 1 albums, the most for any solo artist, equalled only by Elvis Presley, and 14 No. 1 singles as a solo artist.

With his new album XXV released earlier this month, Williams celebrates 25 years as a solo artist. A journey through his career-defining catalogue, featuring multiple No. 1 hit singles and fan favorites, the songs of XXV offer a fresh and illuminating perspective, having been newly orchestrated by Jules Buckley, Guy Chambers and Steve Sidwell, and re-recorded with the acclaimed Metropole Orkest in The Netherlands.

Last on tour in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 on The Heavy Entertainment Show World Tour and more recently, performing two exclusive nights in Melbourne for his Better Man biopic, Williams is raring to deliver his live show to some of his favorite cities down under in 2023.

Playing his highly anticipated AFL Grand Final headline performance this weekend, the iconic artist will entertain a crowd of over 100,000 fans before the game kicks off on the hallowed turf of the MCG.

Robbie Williams Australia & New Zealand 2023 Dates:

Nov 11 – Hawk’s Bay, NZ @ Mission Estate Nov 16 – Sydney, NSW @ Allianz Stadium Nov 18 – Mount Cotton, QLD @​ Sirromet Wines Nov 23 – Melbourne, VIC @ AAMI Park Nov 25 – Geelong, VIC @ ​Mt Duneed Estate Dec 1 – Swan Valley, WA @ Nikola Estate

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Robbie Williams European tour 2023

Robbie Williams celebrates 25 years on stage as a solo artist. Now he’s ready for a European tour in 2023.

Here are the dates: 20.01 – Unipol Arena, Bologna 23.01 – Hallenstadion, Zurich 26.01 – Sportpaleis, Antwerp 28.01 – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam 29.01 – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam 1.02 – Barclays Arena, Hamburg 5.02 – Lanxess Arena, Cologne 15.02 – Festhalle, Frankfurt 20.02 – Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin 26.02 – Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning 27.02 – Royal Arena, Copenhagen 1.03 – Avicii Arena, Stockholm 5.03 – Nokia Arena, Tampere 9.03 – Arena Riga 10.03 – Zalgirio Arena, Kaunas 12.03 – TAURON Arena Kraków 14.03 – Budapest Arena 17.03 – Stadthalle, Vienna 20.03 – Accor Arena, Paris 24.03 – Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona 27.03 – Altice Arena, Lisbon 24.06 – Telenor Arena, Oslo

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Robbie Williams XXV Australian Tour 2023

Chugg Entertainment  and  Frontier Touring  are delighted to announce global pop phenomenon Robbie Williams will return to Australia in November 2023 to play headline dates across the country.

With his new album XXV released in 2022, Robbie celebrates twenty-five years as a solo artist. A journey through his career-defining catalogue, featuring multiple No.1 hit singles and fan favourites, the songs of XXV offer a fresh and illuminating perspective, having been newly orchestrated by Jules Buckley, Guy Chambers and Steve Sidwell, and re-recorded with the acclaimed Metropole Orkest in The Netherlands.

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Robbie Williams is currently touring across 2 countries and has 2 upcoming concerts.

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I went to the Take That re-union concert in Düsseldorf some years. One of the best concerts I have ever been. The pre-group were the pet shop boys. They were so good. We all thought they will be hard to beat. How wrong we were! Take That started for approx an hour without RW and were absolutely fantastic. Then a very strange thing was brought on stage, with RW on top. What an entrance... then everything changed. He started straight away with one his best. I think it was Rock DJ. In a Nutshell, Take That was brilliant but unbeatable with RW together. If ever you have the chance to see him, do go. You will of regret it.

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I have to say that I have mixed feelings about this concert. He came on late at 9pm finished 10:15pm. He only did a few classic songs. He should have come on at 7 or 8:30pm and we had no open act. He made it up by performing Angels, Strong, No Regrets but he should have performed Rock DJ and Millennium. Why he did Feel and Let me entertain you. he did perform love my life.

could have been better if he came on time. 3/5

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It is not too far in the distant past that Las Vegas concert residencies were associated with fading pop stars that were way past their commercial prime. More often than not, the artists that gravitated to Las Vegas concert residencies had enjoyed their fair share of the limelight in America’s musical mainstream. Many attribute the dramatic shift in perception for these shows to Celine Dion (with specific regard to her “A New Day” tour). The tour featured theatrical performances and imbibed the spirit of glitz and excess that Las Vegas is often characterized by. Since then, artists such as Elton John, Britney Spears, and Jennifer Lopez have carried on this tradition with immense success. The newest twist to the history of Las Vegas residencies is one that British pop superstar Robbie Williams just might be the catalyst for.

Robbie Williams is one of the more noteworthy symptoms of the US musical mainstream’s stubborn insularity from the global pop music landscape. Despite being the recipient of the second largest recording contract (valued at 80 million pounds) of all time, Robbie Williams (like many artists from the UK) has been overlooked by US terrestrial radio’s gatekeepers. These gatekeepers enjoy immense power to shape public opinion even today despite the rapid proliferation of alternate venues for music discovery besides terrestrial radio in the last two decades. As a result, Robbie Williams’ chart success in the US has been rather lackluster. None of his singles have entered the Billboard Top 40 singles chart. This is in stark contrast to his larger-than-life popularity overseas (literally everywhere besides the US). Furthermore, it has been almost two decades since he last performed live in the US.

Given this reality, it is rather interesting that Robbie Williams chose a Las Vegas concert residency route as opposed to a mini-tour covering the US’ key media hubs. The second element of surprise stems from the conscious choice of venue. Williams’ team has opted for the intimacy of the Encore Theater at Wynn Resorts. This is quite a shift for someone that in Europe is considered a stadium act. The final element of surprise is the overwhelming demand for tickets for these shows. The six shows scheduled for March 2019 have sold out. It would be interesting to see data highlighting the split between domestic and international demand for these tickets. Six more dates have been added between the months of June and July in Las Vegas.

On the evening of March 9, as concert attendees began to fill in the Encore theatre and indulge in friendly banter with each other, it became clear that one common theme linked many of the Americans in the audience. Most of these people either had foreign ties (by virtue of having lived or studied in Europe at some point in their lives) or had discovered Robbie Williams in the couple of years in the late 90s during which his promotion team tried to actively promote him on American television (to compensate for the lack of acceptance from American terrestrial radio gatekeepers).

My expectations of the concert were moderate – not because I expected to be underwhelmed but because I assumed (incorrectly of course!) that the intimacy of the Encore Theatre automatically meant that the show would be a mellow affair with Robbie Williams sitting on a stool performing mostly swing covers. While covers comprised a significant portion of the setlist, the concert was as far from a mellow affair as it could be. The concert opened with a call to the audience to sing the cheeky and irreverent “National Anthem of Robbie” with the lyrics being projected on to the curtains. The audience obliged with an overabundance of enthusiasm as they sang along hilarious lyrics such as

“Yes he went to rehab

Drugs and drinks took him low

God bless our Robbie

He can swing both ways

He is totally global

Except in the US of A”

This was followed by a video of Robbie Williams being broadcast on the curtains with the crowd cheering on deliriously. The curtains opened to a jaw-dropping stage setup. This was the first indication that Robbie Williams had decided to emulate elements of a stadium concert setup within the smaller confines of a theatre. In fact, the stage set design is one of the smartest uses of spaces I have seen in a very long time. The stage featured three ramps two of which were joined like a horseshoe and a center ramp. There were circular spaces between the ramps which is where the band performed. Robbie Williams made a rather dramatic entry via a suspended platform from the ceiling of the theatre.

The concert was an invigorating cocktail of Robbie’s unapologetic and ego-driven lack of political correctness, quirky humor with not even a hint of inhibition, his penchant for excesses, and the glitz and theatrics laced with a touch of class that have come to characterize Las Vegas as a music concert destination. For an artist that has not been in the American limelight for over 15 years, Robbie Williams embodied the spirit of Vegas with relative ease. In addition to the magnificent stage, Robbie’s entourage featured a troupe of drop dead gorgeous female dancers that performed eye-popping dance routines on songs such as “Rock DJ”, “Let Me Entertain You”, and “Swings both ways”. The euphoria factor of this concert surged ten-fold whenever they were on stage.

There were some defining elements of the concert worth highlighting. The first was a reverence for Las Vegas as demonstrated by the high-adrenaline performances. The second was an ode to Robbie Williams’ beginnings as the dreamy-eyed boy from Stoke-on-Trent (UK) as showcased on performances of songs such as “Mr Bojangles” and “Sweet Caroline” (a Neil Diamond cover performed with his father Pete Conway). In fact, “Sweet Caroline” was one of two songs that featured Robbie’s father – a rather unusual and heartwarming twist to a typical concert format. The final element was Robbie Williams’ commitment to audience engagement. For his performance of “Something Stupid”, he invited an Australian fan from the audience and serenaded her on a couch on a stage. It is fair to say that she took full advantage of the situation and probably got the most bang for her buck as she squeezed his buttocks before leaving the stage. He was aware that people had traveled from different parts of the world for this concert. He asked people to yell out and identify themselves as he did a roll call for Europeans, Australians, Kiwis, and finally Americans. To the Americans, he yelled “why don’t you tell your f**kin friends about me???? I don’t want to be infamous for NOT being famous in America”.

Musically, the highlights of the night were “Feel”, “Rock DJ”, “Swings both ways”, “Let me entertain you” and the penultimate track of the evening – “Angels” (which he introduced by saying “OK fine, I’ll perform that one hit”). The night ended with a cover of “My Way” (made popular by Frank Sinatra). The performance was a subtle nod to the artist that had come to define the early history of Las Vegas concert residencies. It was minimalist at best with only Robbie Williams and his primary songwriting partner Guy Chambers on the piano. At the end of the song, Robbie Williams exited by sinking in to the stage while Guy Chambers continued to play the piano as the curtains descended slowly. There was something symbolic about that moment as it focused the spotlight on the songwriting partnership that sowed the seeds for Robbie Williams’ monumental rise to stardom. Prior to this musical alliance, the success of Robbie Williams was far from a foregone conclusion.

One cannot doubt the larger than life ambition of Robbie Williams in his creative vision for this show. He undoubtedly tried to incorporate a lot but in doing so, he may have inadvertently eschewed the primary aspect of his career – his own hits. With a musical legacy spanning over 11 albums as a solo artist (and fifteen albums including the ones with Take That), he was never going to be in a position to do justice to all of it. That being said, he may have gone too far the other way with a covers-heavy setlist. In my humble opinion, that might have been a miscalculation in the context of an artist trying to reacquaint himself with American audiences. His legacy has been largely built off his own hits as opposed to those of others. This might be my only criticism (albeit a rather significant one) of the concert.

The concert is a reminder that America’s insulation from the European musical mainstream since the mid-90s is America’s loss. It is also a reminder that pop music can be fun, classy, and entertaining without being sonically hollow. It is my sincere hope that Robbie Williams’ return to the American stage forces a re-evaluation of gatekeepers in the American musical mainstream that have largely failed in their endeavor to uphold one of the fundamental tenets of responsible media – diversity.

On the other hand, Robbie Williams may have found the city that embodies his spirit and both him and his concert audience are better off for it. I hope that this performance not only ushers in a new era for Robbie Williams’ relationship with America but also for the many talented popstars from across the Atlantic that have been relegated to relative obscurity in America.

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Robbie Williams Announces 'XXV' Australian Tour for 2023

"Australasia is one of my favourite places in the world to tour; I feel so at home there and hugely appreciate the warm, loving welcome I always receive. I can't wait to do these shows in 2023 and spend some time with my fans"

(Leo Baron)

Robbie Williams  has announced an Australian for 2023. The global pop phenomenon, who is currently in the country to perform at the AFL Grand Final,  will return to Australia in November for a run of dates throughout metro and regional areas. 

The Robbie Williams XXV  tour will see Robbie play a set full of his greatest hits and audience favourites at a series of a day on the green  shows as well as perform two enormous stadium shows in Sydney and Melbourne. 

The stadium shows will take place in Sydney at the newly renovated Allianz Stadium on Thursday 16 November and in Melbourne at AAMI Park on Thursday 23 November. 

Robbie will also play a day on the green  events at Sirromet Wines  in Mount Cotton, Queensland on November 18, and Mt Duneed Estate i n Geelong in regional Victoria on November 25, before traversing the country to make his Swan Valley, WA   debut at  Nikola Estate  on   December 1.

The tour will kick off with one show in New Zealand at Mission Estate Winery Concert in HawkersBay on November 11.

Speaking on the tour, Robbie reflects on his relationship with Australia and his excitement to be returning to our shores for the XXV tour. 

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS is without doubt one of the finest male pop stars of his generation, having sold more than 85 million albums, with 14 UK number one albums (the most for any solo artist) and 14 number one singles as a solo artist.

With an unparalleled catalogue of pop hits, including Angels , Rock DJ , Kids (with Kylie Minogue ),  Feel, Better Man , Love My Life,  Supreme and countless more career-defining smash singles, the Let Me Entertain You  superstar's XXV tour promises to do exactly that.

With his new album XXV  released earlier this month, Robbie celebrates twenty-five years as a solo artist. A journey through his career-defining catalogue, featuring multiple No.1 hit singles and fan favourites, the songs of XXV offer a fresh and illuminating perspective, having been newly orchestrated by Jules Buckley , Guy Chambers and Steve Sidwell , and re-recorded with the acclaimed Metropole Orkest  in the Netherlands.

Last on tour in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 on The Heavy Entertainment Show World Tou r –and more recently performing two exclusive nights in Melbourne for his Better Man biopic, Robbie is raring to deliver his live show to some of his favourite cities down under in 2023.

Tickets for the Sydney and Melbourne stadium shows go on sale to the general public on Friday 30 September from 1 pm local time. There are multiple pre-sales for these events. Both the Robbie Williams fan and Telstra pre-sales will take place from Tuesday 27 September, while a Frontier Members pre-sale  will take place on Thursday 29 September.

Tickets for all a day on the green dates, go on sale on Friday 30 September from 1 pm local time from Ticketmaster a day on the green and AAMI members ’ pre-sales beginning Thursday 29 September.

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Robbie Williams XXV Australian Tour 2023

We are delighted to announce global pop phenomenon ROBBIE WILLIAMS will return to Australia in November 2023 to play headline dates across the country, including five very exciting a day on the green events. Robbie will entertain a day on the green audiences playing Queensland’s Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton; Geelong’s Mt Duneed Estate on Victoria’s Surf Coast; and will then make his Swan Valley debut at WA’s Nikola Estate. "Australasia is one of my favourite places in the world to tour; I feel so at home there and hugely appreciate the warm, loving welcome I always receive. I can't wait to do these shows in 2023 and spend some time with my fans" , says Robbie.

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Katt Williams Wants to Show You the Receipts

After setting the internet aflame earlier this year when he slammed several other comedians in a viral interview, he plans to say more of what’s on his mind in a rare live special on Netflix.

By Elena Bergeron

Reporting from Ponte Vedra Beach and Jacksonville, Fla.

In the crowded landscape of athlete podcasts , “Club Shay Shay,” hosted by the retired N.F.L. star Shannon Sharpe, mostly served sports fans and observers of Black Hollywood since it started in 2020 with interviews with DaBaby and Deion Sanders.

That was until Katt Williams appeared on the show in January and for nearly three hours delivered an incendiary, rollicking and, at points, curiously uplifting interview that pervaded the internet like nothing else this year. Williams accused other big-name comedians of stealing jokes and movie roles from him, riffed on why partying with Diddy (or Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein) is a bad idea, asserted that he read 3,000 books a year as a child and claimed that at 52, he was capable of running a 40-yard dash in less than 5 seconds.

The interview has been viewed more than 67 million times on YouTube, numbers that put it on par with Joe Rogan’s blazing episode with Elon Musk, the industry high-water mark for video podcasts. Its most outrageous moments have been shared, excerpted and spoofed on so many other platforms that even that figure understates its impact. According to Williams, who said he wrote out his part of the dialogue in advance, it’s just what happens when he sets the record straight.

“I’m quite likely to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God,” he said during the interview.

Beyond raising Sharpe’s numbers, the spot helped Williams move tickets to his “Dark Matter” tour and got the PGA interested in hosting him at T.P.C. Sawgrass, the golf course that serves as a playground for pros and that most others will see only by plugging in “PGA Tour Golf” into their PlayStations. On the course, in between shots, he says he made his nuclear-option remarks carefully, responding to rumors — in some cases, told by people he spoke up about — that have dogged him for years about drug use, erratic behavior and arrests (though, he said, no convictions). “I thought that I had worked out a way of breaking the internet, and I felt pretty confident,” he said with a Mr. Rogers level of thoughtfulness. “So I wrote it kind of like a one-man movie, with the intention of its outcome. And — —”

“You’re great, Katt,” a man trills as he passes in his golf cart.

“ Thank you so much,” Williams replies, then pulls to a stop.

“If I let it go at this point, they can actually rewrite history,” he says. Few things unnerve him more than a poor chronicling of facts. That’s probably because few people are better at weaving narratives that seem too incredible not to be true, like when he describes how he taught himself to fall asleep in exactly 59 seconds. (“It wasn’t something I knew I needed but it’s changed my [expletive] life!”)

The things that make Katt Williams such a great raconteur — he is diligent about numbers, inexhaustible in his curiosity and meticulous about his delivery — have made him a persistent presence in comedy since he emerged from the standup world over 30 years ago, through regular appearances on the improv sketch show “Wild ’N Out” and as a scene-stealing dervish in movies like “Friday After Next.” That his improbable rise from homelessness to one of the most prolific, and profitable, comics of his generation isn’t looked on as a feat of craft and yeoman effort, well, that was a record that needed straightening. Williams grabbed even the furthest corners of the internet to do so, and now that he’s got everyone’s attention he is gearing up for the ultimate told-you-so — “Woke Foke,” set to air globally on Saturday. It’s Netflix’s second-ever live special after Chris Rock’s last year .

Williams, who does not work his material in clubs partly because of the looming threat of joke-stealing, has been prepping his material on a 100-date arena tour where audiences were not asked to lock away their phones. It seems a sure way to spoil the act he and Netflix are banking big on. It’s also a show of extreme faith in his current set, and will make for a high-wire debut for the roughly 25 percent of new material he’ll deliver live in Los Angeles.

“ He’s one of the most exceptional improvisational comedians of our time,” says Robbie Praw, Netflix’s vice president of standup and comedy formats. “He does often change his material close to tapings, which is a key reason why he was the perfect person to be our second live special. Because there is something super exciting about that. When there’s no script, there’s no net.”

Or as Williams himself puts it, “The benefit of Katt Williams live is that you don’t, in any way, know what he’s going to say.”

THOUGH HE USUALLY PLAYS golf alongside the retired athletes he’s friends with or someone from the tour crew, today Williams plays this round effectively solo. An assistant named Rhonda trails him in a separate cart driven by a cigar-smoking bodyguard. Later, he calls out to Rhonda, who dutifully takes photos when Williams points up at the trees that rim a rippling green, where two bald eagles have alighted on branches near their nest. “Look at that,” Williams marvels through an open-mouthed grin.

Over the round, he’ll point out a peregrine falcon swooping in to feed, stop in the middle of a fairway to show Rhonda and a caddie a woodpecker that has gotten thisclose to severing a branch, and sprint across one tee box to stand under a magnolia tree and catch its wafting perfume. He’s got dozens of them lining his 100-acre farm, he says.

That sprint to the magnolia, and several more full-speed runs from fairway back to the golf cart, each have the same track-star form he showed in an Emmy-winning cameo on “Atlanta” that ended with his character bolting from the house where he’d kept both his girlfriend and an alligator illegally. Williams displayed that same running form when he showed up at the Dallas Cowboys’ facility in February and ran a 40-yard dash in 4.97 seconds. His claim on Sharpe’s podcast seemed suspect until Williams clocked the time in front of an audience, while wearing Dior sneakers.

Williams left his home in Ohio at 13 over a religious dispute with his parents and landed in Miami, where he says he supported himself stealing car radios and cleaning restaurants. His stint in a homeless encampment introduced him to addicts, many of whom had once been high-functioning professionals. The extent to which those stories informed his reaction to the drug rumors is in the numbers, too. He still does 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups a day. That 40-yard-dash time, it’s denial through demonstration.

To those who accuse him of using, he says, “at some point, even as an idiot, you’re going to have to acknowledge that these drugs should be taking some toll on me. At some point, I shouldn’t be better and faster and stronger because of them.”

Williams has an allegiance to numbers typically reserved for athletes and actuaries, and it’s apparent in the quantifiable way he breaks down his sets. “I try to write the seven to 10 most [expletive] things that I think,” he says, “and I try to make that into the comedy show.” An hourlong special comprises 10 to 12 stand-alone pieces, which usually leaves him looking to add a bit or two as he’s writing. For this run, he says he’s needed to pare down what started as a 90-minute set.

On the road, Williams hones an act by watching footage of the previous night for the first 30 or so dates. “My job is to let this guy know, ‘Hey, you’re looking old out there, like, you going to work this stage?’” he says, adding that he’s most often not refining the words but the delivery — a bigger gesture, a different tilt of his head.

Williams has been writing and performing and refining in this way for 37 years, ever since he won a standup competition in Ruskin, Fla., at 16. The prize was a five-minute opening slot on a tour that featured Richard Jeni, Jeff Foxworthy and Dan Whitney, later known as Larry the Cable Guy.

“He respects the craft,” says Mo’Nique, who is touring with Williams for the first time on “Dark Matter.”

“He respects the ones that came before him. He respects those doors being open. He respects the obligation of, the craft of being a comedian.”

HIS REVERENCE FOR JOURNEYMEN COMICS , those who prove their mettle on live stages night after night, fueled many of the shots Williams took during the Sharpe interview at funnymen who no longer work the circuit, or those who had gotten specials without a lengthy road history. He felt assured in his criticisms, and that there wouldn’t be effective retaliation, he says, “because there’s no big dogs for them to call other than Chappelle, and Chappelle would never cross me. Dun dun dun dun, and then he did!”

Williams is referring to Dave Chappelle’s response to the beefs onstage, saying, “Katt is one of the best painters in the game. So why are you drawing ugly pictures of us?”

Though the question stung (Williams referred to Chappelle as “the king”), Williams stood by his attack: “If I came to tell you a beautiful story, I would have painted you a beautiful picture. I was trying to paint a story of a group of ugly [expletive] that would do things that would hurt you and uplift them, even though they didn’t need to do that. And then instead of helping you or befriending you, that they would,” he pauses to let out a disbelieving sigh, “go so far as to steal from you if they couldn’t emulate you and then lie about you.”

While waiting for the foursome ahead to finish a late-round hole, Williams entertains the question of whether art can be competitive. “History is just a collection of the people that did things the best,” he says between drags of a prerolled joint. Williams brings up Mozart and Chopin, masters who have been studied for centuries.

That’s his aim in comedy, he says. “I will, without question, be one of the greatest comedians that ever lived just because of the body of work.”

Williams means for his 12 specials to be assessed as a whole. It’s a yearslong conversation with an audience that began in 2006’s “Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1,” his electric big-league introduction that built to a flaming indictment of a different celebrity, Michael Jackson, two years before the pop star’s death and a decade before the “Leaving Neverland” documentary.

His more recent specials have skewed toward topics that tend to send people down conspiracy rabbit holes. On a 2023 Marc Maron podcast episode, Williams said he swapped out about half of the material in his 2022 “World War III” special after touring and receiving notes from Netflix about the show’s darkness, which he said was “turned up viciously high” around race and religion. The set still hit one of its funniest peaks in a riff on how the Nazis became such a fearsome military — by producing and consuming methamphetamine. He told Maron he’d be happy if listeners Googled whether that was true.

The night after his round of golf, Williams’s sold-out audience at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville looks perfect for national election polling. There are women in extended-size bodycon dresses, men in Tommy Bahama-esque shirts and couples in matching satin short sets, carrying yard dogs filled with frozen rum runners to their seats.

Williams works through a brisk set, zipping darts at Diddy and Ron DeSantis, with a knockdown bit about white slavery. When it’s done, lounging in a locker room where Chet Baker’s version of “My Funny Valentine” rings out against the tiles, Williams suggests that the live Netflix show might delve into touchier topics, if they exist. “I can’t discuss, maybe, Israel and Palestine and Iran until live?”

The key to skirting flammable topics and still landing a laugh, he says, is “no matter what joke I’m telling or who the focus of that joke is, the thing that you’re supposed to get from it is that my heart is in the right place. But I see what I see.”

Elena Bergeron is an editor and writer in the Culture section of The Times. More about Elena Bergeron

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